ARTIST STATEMENT
I like to touch and hold fabric, feeling its weight, texture and structure, noticing how it sits, folds and twists in my hands. This direct, personal encounter with the material is central to my practice. I explore how fabric can be manipulated—scrunched, knotted, pleated, folded and stitched—to create soft sculptural volumes that can be connected into groupings, stacks and assemblages.
Transformation is at the heart of this process. I am interested in taking a familiar, pliable material and giving it physical presence, structure and volume, creating forms that can appear unexpectedly solid, rigid or architectural. I am drawn to the tension between fabric’s inherent softness and flexibility and the strength and stability it can acquire through manipulation, changing not only its form, but also the way it is perceived. I am fascinated by the physical challenge of engineering and coaxing fabric to behave against its natural tendencies, finding ways to make a soft, flexible material hold unexpected forms and structures.
This transformation also extends to the textiles themselves. Whenever possible, I work with rescued and discarded fabrics that are considered to have little or no further use. Through the process of deconstruction and re-making, these overlooked materials are transformed, given renewed significance and brought into focus as objects worthy of attention.
My process is slow and exploratory, drawing on traditions of origami, patchwork and quilting. Each piece develops through a dialogue between my hands and the fabric, responding to its particular qualities, limitations and possibilities. Bold colour, surface design, stitch, embroidery and embellishment add further dimension, while light and shadow accentuate the raised, folded and layered surfaces.
The resulting forms occupy a space between textile and sculpture, softness and rigidity, the familiar and the unexpected. They are made to be encountered visually while also engaging a physical awareness of texture, weight and touch, inviting the impulse to reach out and feel.
Transformation is at the heart of this process. I am interested in taking a familiar, pliable material and giving it physical presence, structure and volume, creating forms that can appear unexpectedly solid, rigid or architectural. I am drawn to the tension between fabric’s inherent softness and flexibility and the strength and stability it can acquire through manipulation, changing not only its form, but also the way it is perceived. I am fascinated by the physical challenge of engineering and coaxing fabric to behave against its natural tendencies, finding ways to make a soft, flexible material hold unexpected forms and structures.
This transformation also extends to the textiles themselves. Whenever possible, I work with rescued and discarded fabrics that are considered to have little or no further use. Through the process of deconstruction and re-making, these overlooked materials are transformed, given renewed significance and brought into focus as objects worthy of attention.
My process is slow and exploratory, drawing on traditions of origami, patchwork and quilting. Each piece develops through a dialogue between my hands and the fabric, responding to its particular qualities, limitations and possibilities. Bold colour, surface design, stitch, embroidery and embellishment add further dimension, while light and shadow accentuate the raised, folded and layered surfaces.
The resulting forms occupy a space between textile and sculpture, softness and rigidity, the familiar and the unexpected. They are made to be encountered visually while also engaging a physical awareness of texture, weight and touch, inviting the impulse to reach out and feel.